Budgeting Wizards Gifts

Exploding Piggy Bank

'We can afford Monday through to Thursday. We're going to have to skip Friday, Saturday and Sunday.'

'The cutbacks begin to affect wizards.'

'As company chairman I'd like to thank you all for participating in the evenings entertainment and saving me ?4000.'

'But the most creative bit of the agency is, of course, the Accounts Department!' Advertising executive addressing a group of art students.

'It took us a long time and a lot of hard work to find out how to stop your down going profits - make more sales and stop wasting money. That'll be 350.000,- Euro.'

"Is this to make me feel bad for not getting you that laptop?"

Gerry, there are more accurate ways of balancing the petty cash.

"You're a fine one to talk about my spending!"

"Your expense account ain't what it used to be. There's not enough money on your card to cover the $5.35."

Fuel bill gone through the roof

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

"I'm glad they want comedy... the budget is a joke."

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

Investing your savings

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

"Seriously, you can't balance the budget with cushion change."

"We balanced our budget this month!"

"What comes after zillion?"

Once again overbudget and past dealine, the predatory boa constractor adroitly squeezes the life from its victim's wallet.

'Well I've finished the project on time and on budget!' 'Oh, that means I've given you too much time and too much money!'

Blowing dust off an order book.

"Alright, alright! I'll stop buying the cheap stuff, OK?"

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

'And finally, a steady decline in earnings has forced us to trim the presentations budget.'

'With 5% spent on talent, 5% on production, and 90% on marketing...I smell WINNER!'

'Carry on sailor, just keep swimming around the coast and stick your head up now and again.'

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, especially with our advertising budget.

"No, unfortunately I won't be raising your debt ceiling."

"To save money, 5 employees will share the same computer. I got the idea while I was carpooling."

'We've gone over your budget very carefully, Mr Thorne. Unfortunately the network does not sell 7-second spots.'

"The Treasury is fairly sure that the figures in the budget are correct, they might just not be in the right order!"

'The sick economy isn't why J.B.has cut back on spending. He always was a tightwad.'

"So, the bills still aren't paid? You've never been good at money management."

'Every year local authorities whinge on about needing more money to maintain services.'